Rapid progress in CMOS technology since the late 1990s has increased the vulnerability of
processors toward faults. Subsequently, the focus of computer architects has shifted toward …

We present here a report produced by a workshop on 'Addressing failures in exascale
computing'held in Park City, Utah, 4–11 August 2012. The charter of this workshop was to …

As computation scales downward in area, the limitations imposed by the batteries required
to power that computation become more pronounced. Thus, many future devices will forgo …

Emerging byte-addressable nonvolatile memories (NVMs) promise persistent memory,
which allows processors to directly access persistent data in main memory. Yet, persistent …

Architecture Design for Soft Errors provides a comprehensive description of the architectural
techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative …

Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage
levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient faults …

The processors that drive embedded systems are getting smaller; meanwhile, the batteries
used to provide power to those systems have stagnated. If we are to realize the dream of …

Debuggers have been proven indispensable in improving software reliability. Unfortunately,
on most real-life software, debuggers fail to deliver their most essential feature---a faithful …

Variation in performance and power across manufactured parts and their operating
conditions is an accepted reality in modern microelectronic manufacturing processes with …

Significant time is spent by companies trying to reproduce and fix the bugs that occur for
released code. To assist developers, we propose the BugNet architecture to continuously …